Republicans are pushing a bill that would protect employers who are opposed to same-sex marriage due to their religious beliefs. This new legislation comes just a few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the ban against same-sex marriage. »7/17/15 9:25am 7/17/15 9:25am

Apryl Kellam was dismissed from her position at a church day care after refusing to marry her fiancé. Kellam told CBS 6 that she was fired by her supervisor at Staples Mill Road Baptist Church in Virginia because she was in violation of church policy. »1/16/15 11:30am 1/16/15 11:30am

There is a single 51-year-old entrepreneur in New York City preparing to be a mother for the second time — she had her first daughter at 49. Flush from her successful jewelry publicity business, Tracey Kahn is embracing motherhood thanks to IVF and doesn't care what you think. »9/09/14 11:40am 9/09/14 11:40am

Aging Brillo pad Rand Paul has a brilliant suggestion for a weapon in his ongoing war against the terrifying dragon of the unwed single mother who won't stop living off the government: tell her that if she won't stop having kids, she doesn't get any more government benefits. Rand Paul also famously opposes giving… »1/30/14 12:20pm 1/30/14 12:20pm

Maybe it's unfair to call George Will a dumbass; he gives off the vibe that his Soduku skills are nothing to sneeze at and he's probably got a photographic memory for the complex requirements of toupee care (because George Will's scalp cozy looks like it's been pampered like a 24 year old mistress). However, he did… »8/26/13 1:20pm 8/26/13 1:20pm

During the second Presidential debate last month, Mitt Romney suggested that one way to reduce Aurora, Colorado-style mass assault weapon shootings would be to encourage everyone to just get married before they have babies. Blaming single parents for violence has long been a dog whistle talking point of the family… »11/27/12 1:10pm 11/27/12 1:10pm

A cabal of UCLA psychologists has gathered together to bring us a brand new marriage study, which finds that poor people in America value the institution just as much as their fellow middle class and high-income citizens. Published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, the study aimed to figure out whether or not $1… »7/17/12 12:00pm 7/17/12 12:00pm

Apparently, it's awful to be a single mother in America. They're are more likely to have lower levels of education, lower income, and if they're uneducated they're much less likely to get married than their more educated counterparts, which shuts them out of the added income a husband can provide for a family. To make… »7/16/12 11:35am 7/16/12 11:35am

Anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-college Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is also anti-single mother — or at least he was when he first ran for Senate, back when he was, by his own admission, less of a zealot than he is today. During a Pennsylvania town hall meeting, he told the gathered crowd that welfare… »3/06/12 1:50pm 3/06/12 1:50pm

What does being a single mom do for your health by age 40? Mostly, nothing good, as you might guess. But a new study that measured its effects also suggests that marriage isn't necessarily a magical cure for all women. »6/03/11 10:45am 6/03/11 10:45am

Apparently Mike Huckabee has learned nothing from the mistakes of his Republican predecessors. On a radio show this week, Huckabee criticized Natalie Portman for sending the message that it's okay to have a child "out of wedlock," because attacking Murphy Brown went so well for Dan Quayle nearly two decades ago. »3/03/11 11:08pm 3/03/11 11:08pm

In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, Emily Bazelon profiles several groups of single mothers by choice — many with multiple kids — who support and live near each other with no men around. »2/02/09 2:00pm 2/02/09 2:00pm

Betty James »11/25/08 3:30pm 11/25/08 3:30pm, who, with her husband Richard, invented the slinky in 1945, died last week at the age of 90. Although Richard came up with the idea for the iconic coil, Betty named the toy, and the two marketed and demonstrated it together. Moreover, after Richard up and left for a cult in Bolivia in 1959, Betty took…